Good Morning,
this will be brief and hopefully thought provoking to those that are interested in how the body actually works and how we use it to play tennis.
I have been looking at a lot of videos with a fellow geek and have this thought for all to consider..
Do tennis players, including the very top ones use the body to its full potential as it was intended?
My feeling is that the answer is a big fat, resounding NOOO!
More to come on this,
The Tennis Engineer!
We know that we should use the ground to initiate force production and that it transfers up through out body (system) to the impact. The ideal transfer of force or to be more precise the conservation of momentum requires something to be fixed to the surface (i.e. a foot). Therefore, the ideal way to produce a shot is to have feet in contact with the surface at all times until impact has happened.
(Not saying that players don’t jump, hop etc but it is not ideal, it is a result of being in emergency or under more pressure than their “area of control” can handle).
The Tennis Engineer 